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"Hm" JJ yawned, resting her head on Spence's shoulder and wrapping her arms around his waist as he pressed the button for their floor and the doors of the elevator closed. "Wake me up when we get to my desk."

Spence shook his head. "We'll stop by the break room first and get coffee for you."

"Mm I love you." JJ murmured into the cotton of his sweater vest. "Remind me of this morning the next time that I think a movie night and shopping with Garcia and Emily on a school night is a good idea."

"Okay" Spence agreed as he rubbed JJ's side. "At least everything is all set for Halloween."

JJ smiled against Spence's shoulder, knowing how much he loved the holiday. She couldn't wait to see Henry and Spence dressed up as Spider-Man together. "Mm hm. Your and Henry's costumes should be delivered later this week. Pen ordered them online."

Spence nodded in reply. "What about yours?"

"Mine is a surprise that you will have to wait until Halloween to see." JJ said as she enjoyed the last few seconds of snuggling against her boyfriend's chest. Hopefully today would just be an office day and they could go home and have an early night.

The elevator dinged as it stopped on sixth floor and the doors opened revealing the still dark BAU. Apparently they were the first ones there.

"Come on, let's get you coffee." Spence said as he led JJ directly into the break room for caffeine before heading to their desks and the pile of consults that undoubtedly waited for them.

JJ stood leaning against Spence, her arms wrapped around his waist and her cheek resting on his chest with her eyes closed as they waited for the coffee to brew.

Spence rubbed JJ's back soothingly while his other hand rested on the small of her back as they enjoyed the moment of quiet other than the slow drip drip drip and woosh of water running through the coffee pot.

A few minute later the coffee finished and they headed for their desks and waiting paperwork, still tired, but perking up from the coffee.

"What the…" Reid paused in the middle of the aisle between his desk and JJ's, not quite sure what exactly to make of his desk.

JJ managed to stop herself from running into Spence's back and spilling her coffee on him. She peeked around his tall frame, her jaw dropping at the sight before her. Everything at Spence's desk was wrapped in tin foil. The chair, the computer, the pictures, the desk itself, the individual drawers, a couple of pens, each individual case file. All wrapped in tin foil. If it was on Spence's desk when he left at the end of the day yesterday, or a part of his desk space, it was now wrapped in tin foil.

As Spence and JJ stood staring at the shininess of Spence's desk, Morgan slipped into the bullpen behind them and chuckled as he walked past them to the mezzanine and headed for his office.

Spence shook his head and slipped his messenger bag strap off over his head and dropped his bag on his desk as he tried to fathom how much time Morgan had spent wrapping his entire desk in tin foil.

Morgan paused and peeked around the corner of the hallway, not wanting to miss the next part.

Spence flopped down into his desk chair.

'PHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAA' sounded from his chair as he made contact with the seat.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Spence screamed as he jumped up from the seat.

JJ jumped at the sound coming from Spence's chair followed closely by Spence's startled scream. Then she turned to look where she heard Morgan laughing in the hallway to his office.

Morgan wiped the tears from his eyes from laughing so hard he cried at the sight of pretty boy jumping a mile high at the sound of the air horn he'd attached to the bottom of Reid's desk chair going off, and then turned and headed for his office.

JJ laughed as Spence showed and explained how the cardboard box, one gallon milk, cork, screw, mouse trap, and string that he was assembling was going to work. "You're having fun with this aren't you?"

Spence looked like a little boy as he sheepishly nodded while filling the milk jug with glitter. "I haven't hacked like this since MIT."

JJ tipped her head to the side. "Hack? I thought Penelope was our resident hacker?" JJ said as she stepped close to Spence and wrapped her arms around his waist as she leaned against him, lifting her head to look up at him.

Spence smiled as he looked down at JJ. "Not that kind of hacking babe. Caltech and MIT both have a long history and tradition of student pranks. At MIT they call it hacking."

JJ peered up at Spence. "Wouldn't the faculty want to discourage pranks? It seems like things could get kind of crazy."

Spence smiled as he rubbed his thumbs across the small of JJ's back underneath her t-shirt. "At a normal school, probably, but Caltech and MIT are both renowned for their innovation and highly technical levels of education. The practical jokes and pranks are meant prominently demonstrate technical aptitude and cleverness or sometimes to commemorate popular culture and historical topics. So the faculty members see good pranks as a practical application of knowledge and encourage them."

"Hey Morgan," JJ said from her desk where everyone was congregated as a sweaty Morgan walked into the bullpen, "I thought you left a while ago?"

"Yeah, I went to leave after working out and realized I forgot my truck keys." He said as he walked through the bullpen and up to his office.

Spence smirked and fought against the grin attempting to grow on his face as he glanced across the aisle to where JJ sat at her desk as they waited to see if Morgan would end up springing the trap.

Morgan stood in his office behind his desk double checking that he turned off his computer and hadn't forgotten anything else. Seeing that he had everything, he opened his desk drawer to pull out his truck keys. Then he heard a loud 'SNAP' come from the ceiling above him and looked up.

"SON OF A…" came the cry of surprise from Morgan's office.

"What did you… OH MY…" Garcia exclaimed as Morgan appeared on the mezzanine.

Emily snorted as she tried not to laugh, but then lost it as she couldn't help but laugh at the sight Morgan made.

At that moment Hotch walked out of his office, bag in hand to head home to spend time with Jack. He looked at the sight of the younger members of the team laughing in the bullpen and then turned to look where they were looking. His eyebrow quirked up in true Hotch fashion as he studied the spectacle that was Derek Morgan at the moment. "I know you and Garcia are close Morgan, but I don't think you can pull off that color pink the way that Garcia can." He said, somehow managing a straight face as he took in the sight of Morgan completely covered in sparkly hot pink glitter.

Morgan raised his hand to his still sweaty face and attempted to wipe the glitter away... but all that did was spread the pink sparkles around more.

Henry patted Sunny's head as she brought back her ball and dropped it at his feet, panting. JJ and Spence both reached over from where they stood on either side of Henry and scratched Sunny behind her ears.

Sunny, for her part, reveled in the attention and affection from her master and two of his big people. They'd been at the park all afternoon playing and running… and now she was tired.

JJ noticed how much Sunny was panting and reached down pulling a bottle of water out of the bag they'd brought with them. "Are you thirsty girl?" JJ asked as she opened the wide mouthed bottle of water and tipped it towards Sunny so that she could drink.

Henry giggled at the sight of his puppy drinking water out of a bottle. Then he yawned.

After a long drink of water, Sunny laid down, her head resting on her paws as she looked up at Henry.

"I think it's probably time to go Henry." Uncle Spence said as he squatted down next to Henry. "Sunny is tired." He said as he rubbed the pups back.

"We come back tomorrow?" Henry asked as he pet Sunny's nose and she licked his fingers causing him to giggle.

Spence looked up at JJ, and saw her nod in agreement. "Sure bud; we can come back tomorrow. But for now we should go. It's going to be dark soon and we still need to walk home."

JJ smiled as she took out Sunny's leash and clipped it on her collar. "Okay, let's go." She said as she stood back up.

"Do you want me to take her?" Spence asked as he held his hand out for the leash.

"No, I've got her. Besides, you might need to carry someone." JJ said as she nodded at Henry whose head was bobbing tiredly as he rubbed at his eyes.

"Hey little man, you going to be able to make it?" Spence asked as he looked down at Henry.

Henry nodded and rubbed his eyes again. "Uh huh."

"Are you sure? How about a ride home?" Spence asked with a soft smile as his godson leaned against him.

"Otay" Henry nodded as he looked as he looked up at Uncle Spence.

"Great!" Spence replied. "Do you want me to ride on your shoulders then? That would probably be easiest for you. I don't want you to drop me." He teased with a grin as he looked down at Henry.

Henry laughed. "You too big! I not carry you!"

"You can't?" Spence replied with a wink at JJ who was grinning at her boys' antics. "OH… you want me to carry you… oh… oh… okay." Spence replied as he bent over and scooped Henry up into his arms.

Henry giggled at Uncle Spence's silliness and turned in his perch on Uncle Spence's arm to look at Mommy and Sunny. "Uncle 'Pence silly Mommy."

JJ smiled as she took Spence free hand in her free hand and the started to walk home from the park. "I know he is, but we love him anyway don't we little man?"

"Uh huh" Henry replied nodding his head which caused his blond locks that were just like Mommy's to cover his face and his eyes. He reached up and brushed them back as he rubbed his eyes again. Then he laid his head down on Uncle Spence's shoulder. He was asleep before they even made it out of the park.

"Oh, hey Rossi, do you think you could help me with a consult for Wildwood PD?" Morgan asked after shifting his path to where Rossi sat in the bullpen from where he'd been heading for Rossi's office.

"Oh sure," Rossi answered in a subdued tone as he sat his newspaper of to the side.

"Now that I noticed." JJ said, her hands tucked into her pockets, as the team except for Hotch and Garcia huddled around where Rossi sat in the bullpen.

"Somethin' goin' on?" Morgan asked as he studied Rossi's facial expression.

"How did it go the other night?" Emily asked curious as to how dinner went with his first ex-wife.

"What happened the other night?" Morgan asked curious what Emily knew that he didn't.

"Are you okay?" Reid asked.

Rossi looked around at the majority of the team, feeling like a deer in the headlights. "And why wouldn't I be?" he asked managing to muster a slight bit of bravado into his response.

JJ glanced over her shoulder at Emily and then back at Rossi, "You seem distracted."

"I'm considering a purch… ase." Rossi said, trailing off as he looked down at the newspaper to find that it showed and ad for Second Life Thrift Store.

Morgan nodded. "Come on now Rossi, you know we're not buying that. What's really goin' on?" he asked.

Rossi sighed and then stood up from his chair. "Ah, look, it was a late night with Ringo and not enough coffee. I mean the guys a world class drummer, but don't think I didn't wipe the floor with him in Rockband."

"Alright, what do you think?" JJ asked as she attempted to use her still relatively new profiler skills to figure out if Rossi was lying or telling the truth.

"He could be telling the truth…I only played him to the easy level." Emily said, her eyes squinting slightly as she attempted to discern if Rossi was telling the truth or not.

"I can't tell." Reid added as he studied Rossi's expression and mannerisms.

"And you never will," Rossi replied pointing his finger at Reid, glad that his many years as a profiler had helped him cover, if only just barely, what was really going on from the team.

Reid smiled ever so slightly in response.

"Let's get started." Hotch said from the mezzanine as Penelope followed behind him on their way to the round table room.

"So what's the significance of the water burial?" JJ asked as the team worked their way through the details of the case on the jet. "Is he visiting the dump sites to relive his crimes, or is he using it as a forensic counter measure?"

"It could be both." Hotch replied as the team discussed the unsub murdering and dumping bodies in California's Angeles National Forest. A new victim, Nick Scirvin, had been abducted just that morning not long after the discovery of three victims in Ridge Canyon Lake that had gone missing in the last week.

"If this unsub is so obsessed with death then Jake Shepherd was the perfect person to talk to. He'd been there and back again." Hotch said as he stood with his arms crossed while the team discussed what they knew so far.

"Come on guys," Morgan said, "gentle lights, shadowy figures. Those are the lights in the emergency room and the doctors hovering over the patients and we all know that. No one ever actually sees the 'after life'" Morgan argued as he made quotes marks in the air with his fingers at after life as the team looked on, all with varying expressions of agreement or disagreement on their faces.

"I did." Reid said from where he stood leaning against a pillar, drawing the attention of the entire team. "Before Tobias Hankel resuscitated me, I had that exact experience and I wasn't in an emergency room, I was in a shed."

"Reid, you never told me that." Morgan said as he looked up at Reid in shock.

"I'm a man of science. I… I didn't know how to deal with it. There's no quantifiable proof that God exists, and yet, in that moment… I was faced with something that I couldn't explain. Still can't." Reid said as he looked over to where JJ sat at the table, and made eye contact with her.

JJ said a silent prayer of thanks that someone had been watching out for Spence that night… that it hadn't been his time… either of the two times she'd lived through that horrific night.

Morgan looked down and away, knowing better than to challenge whatever Reid had decided to believe about what he experienced that night.

Emily sat silently pondering the difference between Reid's experience and her own as she looked down at the table.

"What if this unsub has had a similar experience and this is his way of looking for answers?" Hotch asked.

"If that's the case, why kill Jake Shepherd? Why not just talk to him?" Rossi asked.

"He wanted… to see if he had the same experience as before." Emily replied in understanding.

"Once isn't enough?" JJ asked in a subdued voice as she sat up in her seat and turned to look at Emily.

"Not if Jake didn't see the same thing the unsub did. He wants to know if the experience can change. I can relate to that."

At everyone's questioning glances, Emily explained. "Uh, Reid felt a warmth and saw a light. When I coded in the ambulance all I felt was cold and darkness," She said as she looked around at the team, "and I would like to think that there is a different future waiting for me."

"Hey you." JJ said with a soft smile on her face as Spence sank into the seat next to her on the jet. "You look cold… want to share my blanket?" she asked as she took in the sight Spence's damp hair. He'd managed to change into some dry clothes from his go bag after having to go into the lake to retrieve Chase Whitaker.

Spence granted JJ a smile as she wrapped the blanket around the two of them and curled into his side, her knees in his lap and her chin resting on his shoulder as she ran her fingers across his chest. "So is that what you were talking about on Twelfth Night when you were talking about being a man of science but wanting to believe?" she asked softly so that they wouldn't be overheard.

Spence nodded his head as he placed his hand over JJ's on his chest and interwove their fingers. He lifted her hand up to his lips and kissed her palm and then allowed her hand to drop back to his chest.

"Baby, you could have told me." JJ murmured as the fingers of her other hand played with the hair at the nape of his neck.

Spence shook his head and turned to look at JJ. "At the time I was overwhelmed… I just couldn't explain it… and I didn't know what to say… and on top of everything else… it was just too much."

JJ nodded in understanding as she thought back to that night… that original night and the nights after that came after that one… the weeks and months that this Spence had suffered through alone. "I know baby… I know. I'm glad though that whoever or whatever it was that was there with you in that shack that night was there watching over you." Her fingers clenched against his chest as she remembered watching him spasm, convulse, and laying dead on the floor of the shack as she gave another silent prayer of thanks as she leaned in and gently kissed him.

Spence returned JJ's kiss and then allowed his forehead to rest against hers as they quietly talked and cuddled for a while before they decided to sleep.

"Do you mind if I?" Emily asked quietly as she indicated the seat across from where Rossi sat staring out the window.

Rossi turned to look at Emily and shook his head and then gave a half smile as he accepted the drink she held out to him.

"I thought maybe you could use that after this case… and with everything else…" Emily trailed off.

Rossi nodded as he took a sip of the Scotch she'd brought him.

"So… do you want to talk about it?" Emily asked in concern for her friend.

"I know I said that I didn't have a choice… but I can't do it." Rossi said as he turned to look out the window. "I can't help Carolyn end what so many people fight for… what we fight to save every day." What you came so close to losing, Rossi thought silently as he looked at Emily.

Emily nodded in understanding. Helping Carolyn end her life would go against everything Dave Rossi stood for. She just hoped that Carolyn understood that when he told her no.